High school adventures
seeks to evade it.
Are victims of other crimes ashamed to have been victimized? Maybe. But there is a particular, and particularly huge, stigma associated with sexual violence.
I refuse to feel ashamed of what was done to me. The shame of the act is not mine, it is on the one who perpetrated the crime. My other rapists may never be punished, but they will always be guilty.
The language I use to talk about sexual violence should place the spotlight on the fact that another person perpetrated a crime against me, and we do not call the victim of a robbery a "survivor."